poet
n.
one who writes poems; minstrel, bard
Poet
A poet is a person who writes
poetry. This is usually influenced by a
cultural and intellectual
tradition. Some consider the best
poetry to be, to some extent, and universal, and to address issues common to all
humanity; others are more absorbed by its particular, personal and ephemeral qualities. In the
English language, poets generally considered to be of the most influential and profound include
Chaucer,
Shakespeare,
John Milton,
William Blake,
John Keats,
Lord Byron,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Emily Dickinson,
Walt Whitman,
W. B. Yeats,
T. S. Eliot,
Ezra Pound,
Elizabeth Bishop and
Sylvia Plath. American poet
Walt Whitman was one of the first poets to write a kind of poetry now called
free verse, though French poet
Jules Laforgue was also writing in free verse around the same time as Whitman. Free verse differed from traditional verse because it was not bound by rhyme or meter. In the Western tradition,
Homer,
Sappho,
Virgil,
Dante,
Luís de Camões,
Fernando Pessoa and
Goethe round out a basic list. In Chinese,
Li Bai,
Du Fu and other Tang dynasty poets produced some the oldest poetry in the world, which is still read today.
Basho,
Omar Khayyám, and
Rumi complete one defensible
canon.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
poet
Noun
1. a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
(hypernym) writer, author
(hyponym) bard
(derivation) verse, versify, poetize, poetise
Poet (der)
n.
poet, one who writes poems, lyricist; bard, minstrel, jongleur
Poet
(n.)
One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About